Azure Government

How to manage Azure Government directories with Powershell

January 6, 2017 Jan 6, 2017 01/6/17

Kyle Deeds, Program Manager

When utilizing a new directory for your Azure Government environment, one gap commonly encountered is assigning an alternate email address to each user. This attribute is only mandatory for accounts given a Service Administrator role, thus many accounts, including Co-Administrators, do not have the attribute set. Enabling features such as ...

Join us Jan 25 in DC: “How to Jumpstart Your Move to the Cloud – Gov Edition”

January 6, 2017 Jan 6, 2017 01/6/17

Karina Homme

(image) As we enter the New Year, many government agencies continue to resolve to take advantage of cloud computing. However, oftentimes, agencies find that they are stuck, unprepared and seeking ways to help them transition to the cloud.   With these challenges in mind the Microsoft Azure Government DC User Community is kicking off 2017 ...

Announcing features for Backup and Site Recovery Services (OMS Suite) with Resource Manager

January 5, 2017 Jan 5, 2017 01/5/17

Sarah Weldon

Azure Government revamps Azure backup and Azure site recovery services to facilitate advanced capabilities for Government cloud users. This update brings various enhancements, summarized in the table below. For more information and technical Documentation on Backup and Site Recovery please see Azure Government Documentation. We welcome ...

California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) approves Microsoft Government Cloud services for Criminal Justice Information

December 22, 2016 Dec 22, 2016 12/22/16

Rochelle M. Eichner

California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) provides law enforcement and criminal justice agencies access to FBI and state Criminal Justice Information, along with the ability to communicate messages to other agencies within California, other states and Canada.  As the interface to criminal justice information systems, CLETS ...

Docker announces federal security and compliance controls for Docker Datacenter built on Azure Blueprint

December 15, 2016 Dec 15, 2016 12/15/16

John Molesky

Security and compliance are top of mind for government IT organizations.  It is important for these enterprises to have the ability to deploy applications on a commercial cloud platform that adheres to strong baseline security controls. U.S. Federal agencies and many non-government organizations are dependent on various standards and ...

Eight new service offerings added to Azure Government certification scope

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16

Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager

We are pleased to announce the addition of Azure Resource Manager, Automation, Azure Batch, Log Analytics, Azure Media Services, Policy Administration Service/RBAC, Redis Cache, and Scheduler to certification scope in Microsoft Azure Government. Each of these service offerings has received Joint Authorization Board (JAB) approval for addition...

Azure Blueprint is now available for the FedRAMP High Baseline

December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16

John Molesky

Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the FedRAMP High Baseline. As previously announced, the Azure Blueprint program is designed to facilitate the secure and compliant use of Azure Government, providing a simplified way to understand the scope of customer security responsibilities when ...

Copying Azure resource groups between different Azure subscriptions or environments

December 9, 2016 Dec 9, 2016 12/9/16

Jeff Bowles, Principal Consultant, Microsoft Services

Overview The Azure PowerShell module includes the Move-AzureRmResource cmdlet that allows you to move a resource to a different resource group or subscription, but it requires the subscriptions to be in the same tenant. What if you want to copy or move a resource group from a personal subscription (e.g. a free Microsoft Azure Pass)  to a ...

Microsoft signs CJIS Security Addendum with Utah-covering two-thirds of the US population

December 6, 2016 Dec 6, 2016 12/6/16

Rochelle M. Eichner

Meeting the applicable regulatory controls of the CJIS Security Policy is a long-term commitment for Microsoft. We don’t consider it a checkbox, it is a commitment. As part of this commitment Microsoft recently signed the CJIS Security Addendum with Utah--bringing the total states which Microsoft has signed the CJIS Security Addendum to 25...

Join us: DC Azure Gov Meetup on Hybrid Cloud with ExpressRoute – Dec. 14

December 2, 2016 Dec 2, 2016 12/2/16

Karina Homme

(image) Hybrid is not a trend or a buzz word, it is a reality that every enterprise is facing today. Furthermore, real hybrid does not mean infrastructure alone. It applies to the entire stack from SaaS-based productivity services to PaaS and of course IaaS. It means consistency across on-premises and the cloud. A key part of Microsoft’s...